One day after the Winter Olympics concluded in Pyeongchang, the Japanese delegation returned home Monday and its medal-winning athletes expressed their gratitude to the fans for their warm and enthusiastic support.
Team Japan amassed 13 medals in South Korea, its most ever in one Winter ...

Parting thoughts and parting shots from Pyeongchang:
• It was terrible to see Gangneung Ice Arena with so many empty seats at the start of the figure skating events each morning. Very bad optics for the skaters and TV viewers around the world.
All of the ...

Francesco Friedrich's four-man German bobsleigh team won gold on Sunday with their victory at the Olympic Sliding Centre completing Germany's sweep of the bobsleigh gold medals.
The German unit, piloted by the powerfully built multiple world champion Friedrich, finished with a combined time of three ...

The Pyeongchang Olympics have had a bit of everything since Yuna Kim ignited the Olympic flame at the opening ceremony on Feb. 9. Political theater, incredible athletic achievements, the wrath of Mother Nature, and more Russians caught doping.
The first week was significantly overshadowed by ...

The International Olympic Committee dashed Russian athletes' hopes of marching behind their national flag at the Pyeongchang Games on Sunday, deciding against immediately lifting Russia's Olympic suspension after fresh doping violations.
Russians have been competing as Olympic Athletes from Russia, with the nation's Olympic ...

The South Korean women's curling team ended their fairy tale campaign at the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics with a silver medal, falling to heavyweight Sweden 8-3 in Sunday's final.
Riding a wave of popularity that swelled as the games progressed, the "Garlic Girls," as they are ...

Miho Takagi arrived in South Korea amid much media hype about her chances for gold in women’s speedskating at the Pyeongchang Winter Games.
But it was her elder sister Nana who stole the headlines on Saturday night when she won the inaugural women's mass start ...

It was a day of big firsts. Finland picked up its first gold of the games, and Nana Takagi become the only woman to get two speedskating golds at Pyeonchang, but perhaps the most historic first was Czech snow star Ester Ledecka taking golds ...

Japan's incredible run in women's curling culminated in a 5-3 win Saturday over Great Britain in the Pyeongchang Olympics bronze-medal match.
With this win, Japanese skip Satsuki Fujisawa and her squad capped a tournament that saw them beat Sweden — the gold medalist in 2010 ...

Japan's Nana Takagi won the gold medal in the women's mass start final at Gangneung Oval on Saturday night.
The gold was the second here for Takagi, who also picked up one in Japan's victory in the team pursuit on Wednesday night.
She is the only ...